Wiley 15.10, KDEconnect, Muon, Maya theme transparent folder widget

[woodsmoke]

Well,
I decided to install Wiley 15.10 with the spankin' new plasma 5 desktop.

Concerning KDE connect and synaptic.

a) Of prime importance to me is KDE connect. Well..........I can swear that I DID NOT see it in settings after the install.

b) So I go to the "Discover" software centre and .....KDE connect is NOT listed in the installed software.

c) I searched for it and nothing was returned.

d) I looked through the menu system for synaptic...............no synaptic.........WHAT!!!!! :0

e) I tried to install synaptic from the Discover center and could not do it.

f) I tried to install it from terminal and nothing was returned.

g) I changed sources to Main as opposed to United States.

h) did an update, a lot of stuff was pulled in .. restarted.

i) went to Discover and still no KDE connect and no synaptic. I THOUGHT I would have to add a ppa for syanptic to the thing!

j) sudo apt-get install synaptic. FINALLY!!

k) I search for KDEconnect in syanaptic and .............IT IS INSTALLED....!!! WHAT!!!! WHAT!!!!! WHAT!!!

l) I go to system settings and there it is!! WHAT!!?? It paired with the phone immediately.

NOW THINGS GET REALLY INTERESTING!!!!

m) I go to Discover/installed and it is STILL NOT LISTED!!! :0

Okaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy....

Concerning semitransparent / transparent folder widgets.

A) I really do not "mind" the whole flat, metro, etc. interface but I really DO want semitransparent folder widgets because I use a lot of them and go to a lot of trouble with backgrounds for each activity.

B) Tried all the kinds of variations of settings for the provided themes and could...."kind of discern" a smallish amount of maybe transparency.

C) Installed several new themes through the "get new themes" function and the Maya works great. It give a nice almost completely transparent folder widget and also brings in transparent menus.

D) An overly dark and complex background under the menu can blend with the text in the menu but that is ok.

F) So take away............... WHAT is going on with "Discover" not knowing that KDE connect is installed, and one can, indeed, have transparent folders using Maya.

The woodsmoker is happy! all is right with the world!

woodsmoke

[vinnywright]

just a FYI ,,,,,Muon Discover has NEVER shown ALL packages .

I do not know how it decides what to show , and I do not use it .

Muon package manager now dose show ALL ,,,just like synaptic ,,,,,,,,, and remember you can always search the command line with

apt search <package name>

like

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ apt search kdeconnect
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
kdeconnect/xenial,now 0.8-0ubuntu5 amd64 [residual-config]
  connect smartphones to your KDE Plasma Workspace

kdeconnect-plasma/xenial,now 0.0+git20150810-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
  connect smartphones to your KDE Plasma desktop

kdeconnect-plasma-dbg/xenial 0.0+git20150810-0ubuntu1 amd64
  connect smartphones to your KDE Plasma desktop

and to see more info about a package ,,,,,,,,

apt show <package name>

like

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ apt show kdeconnect-plasma
Package: kdeconnect-plasma
Version: 0.0+git20150810-0ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/kde
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Debian/Kubuntu Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
Original-Maintainer: Maintainer: David Suárez <david.sephirot@gmail.com>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1,401 kB
Depends: libqca-qt5-2-plugins, plasma-workspace, sshfs, libc6 (>= 2.14), libfakekey0 (>= 0.1), libkf5configcore5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5configwidgets5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 5.2.0), libkf5dbusaddons5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5i18n5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5kcmutils5 (>= 5.8.0+git20150316.0112+15.04), libkf5kiocore5 (>= 5.3.0+git20141016.0314), libkf5kiofilewidgets5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5kiowidgets5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5notifications5 (>= 5.8.0+git20150317.0114+15.04), libkf5service5 (>= 5.2.0+git20140930), libkf5waylandclient5 (>= 4:5.3.95), libkf5widgetsaddons5 (>= 4.96.0), libqca-qt5-2 (>= 2.0.2), libqt5core5a (>= 5.4.0), libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.0.2) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.0.2), libqt5network5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5qml5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5x11extras5 (>= 5.2.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libx11-6, libxtst6
Recommends: kdeconnect
Breaks: kdeconnect (<< 0.7.3-0ubuntu2)
Replaces: kdeconnect (<< 0.7.3-0ubuntu2)
Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/kdeconnect-kde
Task: kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full
Supported: 5y
Download-Size: 280 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
Description: connect smartphones to your KDE Plasma desktop
 Tool to integrate the KDE's Plasma desktop with your smartphones and
 similar devices.
 .
 It adds a set of plasmoid, plugins and services to the KDE Plasma Workspace.

this from 16.04

VINNY

[woodsmoke]

Duuuuuhhhh you are SO SMART....

apt search <package name>

Im just an old hardware sorta guy!

woodappreciativethatyouremindedmesmoke

[woodsmoke]

Hi, thanks for the tip and info!

As I posted elsewhere, the transparency gave me a great desktop appearance, but the dropdown menus for Synaptic were so transparent they were unuseable. Apparently it is the setting in Desktop behaviour and translucency, I'm forsaking translucency for workability! lol

aaahh well..

woodsmoke